This is all seven years ago, though, and choosing projects by Minghella, Robert Redford and Bill Bob Thornton were not bad choices. In the last ten years I'm hard-pressed to see more than 4 good movies that Affleck has participated in. Damon had 4 that have been released in the last ten months.
Occasionally I'm callous and strange.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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bon bon - Aug 06, 2007 12:05:03 pm PDT #696 of 10000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
beekaytee - Aug 06, 2007 12:08:48 pm PDT #697 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
I'm with bon about the lacking in Ultimatum. I have the Bourne Identity in the player as we speak...it has so much more heart...so many more engaging characters...not to mention roughly 8 times as much dialog.
Clive Owen just spoke a line that Matt speaks in Ultimatum: Look at what they make us give . Which actually just elevated the latter a couple of points in mind...but just.
Polter-Cow - Aug 06, 2007 12:10:43 pm PDT #698 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Shakespeare in Love, Dogma...
Okay, it starts getting iffy. We could put in The Sum of All Fears. I liked that. And wasn't he supposed to be good in Hollywoodland ?
Matt Damon has a higher percentage of good movies on his list, though he also has Eurotrip and Stuck on You.
bon bon - Aug 06, 2007 12:14:14 pm PDT #699 of 10000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Shakespeare in Love, Dogma, Boiler Room, Good Will Hunting OR Chasing Amy, but not both. Those are the four. Sum of All Fears was terrible.
Eurotrip counts as a good movie actually, because Damon's cameo in it is great.
Sean K - Aug 06, 2007 12:36:47 pm PDT #700 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Sum of All Fears was terrible.
Sum of All Fears is best watched on DVD with the commentary track where the director (a big lefty) and his good friend Tom Clancy (raging whackaloon) talk about the movie as it's happening. It's much more entertaining that way.
Scrappy - Aug 06, 2007 1:43:06 pm PDT #701 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I LIKED Stuck on You. Mind, I'm not saying it's a good movie.
Kathy A - Aug 06, 2007 1:56:22 pm PDT #702 of 10000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Sum of All Fears was pretty bad, but they were definitely looking to reset the Jack Ryan series like they did later on for Bond. The studio picked up the rights for Red Rabbit, the Ryan prequel book, but SoAF did so poorly that they apparently decided not to stick with the Affleck.
P.M. Marc - Aug 06, 2007 2:00:29 pm PDT #703 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Damon in Eurotrip was awesome. Worth watching the movie for, as was seeing that, shockingly KK has potential as an actress.
I LIKED Stuck on You. Mind, I'm not saying it's a good movie.
Yeah! What TAFKAS said!
Jesse - Aug 06, 2007 2:01:29 pm PDT #704 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm finally watching Matt on the Daily Show, and the clip reminded me of just how awesome the beginning with the reporter was.
In short, awesome.
bon bon - Aug 06, 2007 2:07:00 pm PDT #705 of 10000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I'm finally watching Matt on the Daily Show, and the clip reminded me of just how awesome the beginning with the reporter was.
Yeah, it's easy to make giant robots fighting exciting. It's hard to make a walk through Waterloo Station edge-of-your-seat tense. But it was awse.